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over a hundred major businesses, including pharmaceutical companies, technology companies, banks, manufacturing companies, chemical companies have announced their support for this bill. in fact, there's polls that show that 8-10 americans already believe that discrimination against people because of their sexual orientation is already illegal, that it's illegal to fire someone for being gay, for example, or for being lesbian. so why are we here today? 23 years ago i stood here at this desk as the manager of the bill of the americans with disabilities act, again, to extend nondiscrimination clauses, civil rights bills to people with disabilities. a lot of people at that time said, what's -- what's the problem? what's the problem? well, here's the problem in a nutshell. let's say that you are a person of color. let's say you're an african-american. or it could be a woman. you could be jewish or catholic or anything else. and let's say that you went down to apply for a job for which urn fully qualified. and the prospective employer said, nah, i'm not going to hire any african-americans, i don't wa
over a hundred major businesses, including pharmaceutical companies, technology companies, banks, manufacturing companies, chemical companies have announced their support for this bill. in fact, there's polls that show that 8-10 americans already believe that discrimination against people because of their sexual orientation is already illegal, that it's illegal to fire someone for being gay, for example, or for being lesbian. so why are we here today? 23 years ago i stood here at this desk as...
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we are a leading business process of consulting, learning and technology solutions provider to clients around the world. these firms access indiecom's outsourcing solutions and consulting services to improve profitability, gain time to market advantage and achieve immediate return on investment. in the mortgage business today, companies are especially challenged by greater regulatory compliance and quality control. they need ways to thrive in this new, tough, dynamic environment, and indiecom is helping mortgage companies do just that. our quality control solutions mitigate risk, adopt management solutions, enhance efficiencies, our mortgage learning solutions developed through the acquisition of mortgage-u helps manage clients, and our sourcing solutions create -- [inaudible] variable cost models for firms of all sizes. these four pillars are the cornerstones of a business model that delivers relevant solutions to the mortgage industry. our guest this morning is no stranger to the financial services field. many people within the mortgage with industry look at lou for guy dance and ins
we are a leading business process of consulting, learning and technology solutions provider to clients around the world. these firms access indiecom's outsourcing solutions and consulting services to improve profitability, gain time to market advantage and achieve immediate return on investment. in the mortgage business today, companies are especially challenged by greater regulatory compliance and quality control. they need ways to thrive in this new, tough, dynamic environment, and indiecom...
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help me find technology we can continue to clean up the environment. we've done more in the last two decades than ever in the history. we can even do more. we like to think we would have a partner. right now in west begin, we think we're working, our government is working against us. i have to be honest with you, i think they are too. i'm trying to keep every door open i can work with them. but i'm not growing to sit back and them not know what we do and how hard we do it an how much energy we provide for this country and the coal that makes still some of the best coking coal in the world comes out of west virginia. our state has done some heavy lifting. we don't mind that. we're good workers. we'll still do the heavy lifting but we would like to someone to recognize and appreciate without condemning news based on all that, you've been in washington a couple of years. is the senate what you expected? is washington what you thought it was going to be? >> no. absolutely not. you know i looked at it through the eyes of what i saw through robert c. byrd an
help me find technology we can continue to clean up the environment. we've done more in the last two decades than ever in the history. we can even do more. we like to think we would have a partner. right now in west begin, we think we're working, our government is working against us. i have to be honest with you, i think they are too. i'm trying to keep every door open i can work with them. but i'm not growing to sit back and them not know what we do and how hard we do it an how much energy we...
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the system is set up for voters to pick representatives through technology representatives now pick their voters and that is why you have dysfunction in congress. it is turned it upside down and that's why doesn't work. >> we should not have picked a four-letter word to be the acronym. really the term became a being of itself and had no relationship to the actual legislative vehicle. the timeframe is so condensed in the crisis was so acute we didn't have time to do the politics around it. if we have the time we could have made a pretty good case that the folks on main street were the ones that this was about. this was not about the banks. the fact that you went to your business on main st. they were going to have enough money to open and they were going to be able to -- he wouldn't have been able to go to your bank and get the money because your money would be -- the bank would be close. >> i would like to get my time to kneel. he hasn't said anything. >> will come back in one second. at the time the boat went down i would argue and the president and then senator were very magnanimous abo
the system is set up for voters to pick representatives through technology representatives now pick their voters and that is why you have dysfunction in congress. it is turned it upside down and that's why doesn't work. >> we should not have picked a four-letter word to be the acronym. really the term became a being of itself and had no relationship to the actual legislative vehicle. the timeframe is so condensed in the crisis was so acute we didn't have time to do the politics around it....
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you had mentioned that the people who did the technology on the website made a number of mistakes, you mentioned verizon. last week they said it wasn't their fault they were told within hhs there was some problems there. >> sir, verizon wasn't involved in the website. >> with the data, i understand, i'm sorry. but they had a role, cgi had a role, other companies, et cetera. i'm just curious in this process, what decisions did you make that affected this for better or worse in terms of the data, the ease, or problems with the implement and being able to track how many people are actually enrolled? >> my decisions specifically to design the website, i was not involved. i am prohibited to choose contractors. we go by the federal procurement, and i got regular reports on exactly what was done. >> what about the part with regard to getting data in terms of how many people are enrolled or trying to roll, did you have any decisions in that process? >> the application process, to this point, does not work end to end very well. >> i understand it doesn't work. >> we do not have reliable data ab
you had mentioned that the people who did the technology on the website made a number of mistakes, you mentioned verizon. last week they said it wasn't their fault they were told within hhs there was some problems there. >> sir, verizon wasn't involved in the website. >> with the data, i understand, i'm sorry. but they had a role, cgi had a role, other companies, et cetera. i'm just curious in this process, what decisions did you make that affected this for better or worse in terms...
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as technology, engineering and math in the nasa portfolio. nasa is a slide that society caps for innovations. >> host: kitty kelley, you write for you told us that you think philip roth is a genius. why is that? >> guest: i do think philip roth is a genius. first of all, his writing, his imagination, his mind had. the alchemy of the whole thing is some pain. i think american pastoral was a phenomenal book. i haven't read every single thing and i can hardly wait to finish what i have stacked up beside that that. it authors may. you know, if you came into the house, you would think i'm part of the collier brothers. i had "the new yorker" staff to, and newspapers. i sometimes think, do you think these books are just going to come into your bios knows this? but i have been piled up to read. i do think philip roth is a genius and i am so sorry that he said recently that he isn't going to write anymore. >> host: if you are currently not working on an unauthorized biography or another but, what is your daily life right now? >> guest: i clean my sock
as technology, engineering and math in the nasa portfolio. nasa is a slide that society caps for innovations. >> host: kitty kelley, you write for you told us that you think philip roth is a genius. why is that? >> guest: i do think philip roth is a genius. first of all, his writing, his imagination, his mind had. the alchemy of the whole thing is some pain. i think american pastoral was a phenomenal book. i haven't read every single thing and i can hardly wait to finish what i have...